This patch reworks the writes to use cumulative values thus making the
app_pointer unecessary and removing it.

Only tested as far as build.
Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>